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Bennett and Shaked demand recount after apparently missing threshold
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Published: 11.04.19, 11:40
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1. Something is rotten
Scott ,   Givatayim   (04.11.19)
So the elections comm. is saying soldiers voted for the Arab party & Meretz?
I don't think so, it's all a little too convenient for the left who need some kind of small victory. Why were observers from the New Right prevented from observing the vote count? Why did the central elections comm. website suddenly freeze & why did the New Right's numbers suddenly drop so they miss the threshold by 1000 votes?
2. Give a sexy shaked her votes back
Tehraniporou   (04.11.19)
The public wants to see her in tight dresses again
3. Bennett hope you learned your lesson
ns ,   Brooklyn   (04.11.19)
Strength with Unity.
The right has lost about 4 seats.
Don't think if you do unite you should be the leader again you did not get enough votes to break the threshold.
4. Something Fishy going on
Jack ,   Nyc   (04.11.19)
This abounds like the Liberals from Florida who cheated many votes from the republicans (almost turning over the election to their favor), there too no one was allowed in while they played their cheating games!!!!

So typical of the left!!!
5. Arabs voting in settler communities major fraud going on???
(04.11.19)
6. If the election was corrupted and not fixed we must protest
(04.11.19)
7. 2 colourful characters. They add some pizazz to Knesset.
Sam ,   Montreal   (04.11.19)
8. bennet- shaked -soldiers' votes - fair counting questionned
ez ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.19)
I have this distinct feeling the something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark. Even if one is critical of how the new right came into being it doesn't diminish one's right to justice and every vote should certainly count
9. bennet- shaked -soldiers' votes - fair counting questionned
ez ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.19)
I have this distinct feeling the something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark. Even if one is critical of how the new right came into being it doesn't diminish one's right to justice and every vote should certainly count
10. an observer from united right should be allowed
martin   (04.11.19)
voting is the heart of a democracy. judge melcer has his rules about election dos and donts. however, with reports of setter votes for arab candidates, and the election committee website showing new right reaching threshold and then falling below it, observers should be permitted.

if it is determined that there have been attempts to steal new right votes, judge melcer should be hauled away in handcuffs. this could be an attempt of other parties to deny new right. this is extremely serious.
11. They were hoisted on their own petard!
(04.13.19)
Let's not forget that 2 Knessets ago (during the 19th Knesset) both of them voted in favor of raising the Knesset entry threshold along with the other right wing parties. It was supposedly to improve the manner in which the coalition governments are formed. In fact it was a thinly veiled action to prevent the Arab parties from entering the Knesset.
In their hubris Shaked and Bennett never imagined that the higher 3.25% threshold would wipe them out of the Knesset.
In their hubris Shaked and Bennett never imagined that pulling away from their base and setting up a new party would wipe them out of the Knesset.
Basically blinded by their hubris they got exactly what they deserved.
Therefore they have nothing to whinch or whine about.

They are now free to return to being private citizens.
Perhaps now they will have time to think about what it was they should have done to avoid being hoisted by their own petard!
12. Jewish affliction in a nutshell: surplus of "I'm damn smart"
(04.14.19)
No you're not, is the right answer most of times.
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